Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 69.39
Liaison Mary Whitney
Submission Date Sept. 25, 2012
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Chatham University
PAE-20: Inter-Campus Collaboration on Sustainability

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 2.00 Mary Whitney
University Sustainability Coordinator
Office of Sustainability
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Does the institution collaborate with other colleges and universities to support and help build the campus sustainability community?:
Yes

A brief summary of papers, guides, presentations, and other resources the institution has developed to share their sustainability experience with other institutions:

All of our sustainable publications, newsletter and guides are made available for anyone to see on our website.


The names of local, state, regional, national, and other campus sustainability organizations or consortia in which the institution participates and/or is a member:

The Higher Education Climate Consortium (HECC)
ASSHE
American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment


A brief summary of additional ways the institution collaborates with other campuses to advance sustainability :

We are a part of an organization called The Pittsburgh Higher Education Climate Consortium (HECC) that works on sustainable issues in Pittsburgh, PA. Pittsburgh’s institutions of higher education have accepted responsibility for leading the way in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and have collaborated to form The Higher Education Climate Consortium (HECC) to cooperatively implement recommendations. HECC meets quarterly in an effort to address the short-term (within 2 years), medium-term (within 5 years) and long-term (beyond 5 years) recommendations on how colleges, universities and their 70,000 students can reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. For the Pittsburgh Climate Action Plan, Version 2.0, HECC developed a series of recommendations addressing energy use, transportation, recycling & waste management, and general sustainability. Our sustainability coordinator, Mary Whitney, is the 2012 HECC Co-chair.


The website URL where information about cross-campus collaboration is available:
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